Bear Valley Mountain Resort

Our coordinator as horrible. She did not plan well. She was not up at the ceremony site, we had to call her while trying to get everything coordinated. She would take weeks to get back to us via email.

Bear Valley is an incredibly beautiful place and we really loved the venue, both for the ceremony (at the overlook) and the reception (the lodge). Unfortunately, the staff just does not operate with much professionalism and ultimately, we can't recommend them because of this. The entirety of the planning process was frustrating, as we either didn't receive information we needed, got inaccurate information, or had to say the same thing multiple times and make corrections at every step. The ultimate mistake occurred during our actual wedding reception when an entire course of dinner was not served (dessert), which was in writing as part of the plan. Unfortunately, BV (and specifically Mariah, the contact), told us this mistake was due to a "miscommunication" and refused to refund us the price of dessert. If you have time to micromanage them, or a really detail oriented planner that can monitor everything the day of, it might be worth it, but otherwise, we would not recommend. As an aside, the food for our rehearsal dinner was excellent (pork chop, 40 people), but wedding dinner (chicken, 90 people) was really disappointing. It's unclear if this was due to the meal selection or just the scaling up, but the entree was really dry/hard and I fear had sat out for a long time.

My brother got married here and we all had an awesome weekend!! I know they were planning from afar and the staff went above and beyond to take care of them leading up to the day of the event. The space was beautiful and the view at the ceremony was amazing. Food was delicious, the staff were awesome, I can't say enough.... if you are looking for a mountain view at a beautiful rustic venue, this is the place to get married!!